OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mass Communication and Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	67
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	37
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	25
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	21
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	21
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	21
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	20
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence	19
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	19
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	18
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	18
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	17
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	17
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	16
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	15
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	15
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube	15
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	14
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building	14
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	14
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	14
Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated C	13
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	13
A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulations on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views	13

The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	13
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	12
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	11
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	10
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	10
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	9
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	9
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	9
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	8
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	7
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	7
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	7
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	7
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	6
Social Media, Messaging Apps, and Affective Polarization in the United States and Japan	6
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	6
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	6
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	6
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
“Truth Sandwich” To Dispel Crisis Misinformation: Exploring the Separate and Combined Impacts of Inoculation, Narratives, and Stealing Thunder on Correcting Crisis Misinformation on Social Media	6
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	6
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	6
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	5
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	5
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	5
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	5
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	5
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	5
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages	4
Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?	4
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	4
News Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Pacific: Evidence from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands	4
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	4
The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution	4
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. *Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities*	4
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions	4
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise	4
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	4
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	4
“Sometimes, We Do Bad Things for the People We Love”: Exploring Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Endorsement of Intimate Partner Violence on Television	4

The Attention Economy and How Media WorksKaren Nelson-Field. *The Attention Economy and How Media Works* . Singapore: Palgrave, MacMilla	4
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media	3
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption	3
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception	3
Breaking Agenda Setting Boundaries: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Understanding Salience of Gun Control in the Polarized Public Sphere	3
Mobile Media (Non-)Use as Expression of Agency	3
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies	3
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-19	3
How Right-Wing Media, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Circulated Antipathy and Threat Cues About Immigrants: A Cross-Media and Cross-Platform Approach	3
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective	3
Intention to Participate in Social Activism Activities in Response to Corporate Social Advocacy: A Third-Person Effect Perspective	3
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion	3
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users	3
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines	3
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)	3
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation	3
Judging “Them” by My Media Use: Exploring the Cause and Consequences of Perceived Selective Exposure	2
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?	2
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity	2
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers	2
The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students	2
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication	2
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings	2
Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists Over Wild Public Networks	2
Communication Technology and Gender Violence	2
Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use	2
The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea	2
Linguistic Inference Framing: A Linguistic Category Approach to Framing Crisis	2
Local Storytelling, Collective Efficacy, and Civic Participation in Fukushima, Japan: An Ecological Approach	2
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media	2
Explaining Mainstream News Media Use in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Partisanship, Perceptions of Threat, Negative Emotions, and News Media Trust	2
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes	2
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness	1
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories	1
Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust	1
Social Media and Substance Use Among Young Hispanic EDM Attendees: A Perspective on Prototype Perceptions	1
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience	1
Political Leadership in Disaster and Crisis Communication and Management: International Perspectives and Practices	1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation	1
Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	1
The Handbook on Religion and Communication	1
Sharing Behavior of Brand Crisis Information on Social Media: A Case Study of Chinese Weibo	1
Managing Social Media Use in an “Always-On” Society: Exploring Digital Wellbeing Strategies That People Use to Disconnect	1
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19	1
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity	1
The Role of Media Use and Misinformation Perceptions in Optimistic Bias and Third-person Perceptions in Times of High Media Dependency: Evidence from Four Countries in the First Stage of the COVID-19	1
The Interrelationships Between Adolescents’ Online Affective Perceptions and Momentary Affect: An ESM Study on Affective Social Media Use	1
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)	1
Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects	1
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics	1
Are We Past the Heterosexual Script? A Content Analysis of Contextual Cues Within the Heterosexual Script in Tween, Teen, and Young Adult Television Programs	1
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power	1
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic PerspectivesJohn C. Pollock and Douglas A. Vakoch (Eds.). COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspective	1
Who Says “Muslims Are Not Terrorists”? News Differentiation, Muslim versus Non-Muslim Sources, and Attitudes toward Muslims	1
The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions	1
Graphic Violence: Illustrated Theories About Violence, Popular Media, and Our Social Lives	1
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation	1
Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons	1
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter	1
Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence	1
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News	1
Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out	1
Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm	1
Visuals as Identity Markers in Political Communication on Social Media: Evidence for Effects of Visual Cues in Liberals, but Not in Conservatives	1
Politics of Disinformation: The Influence of Fake News on the Public SphereGuillermo López-García, Dolors Palau-Sampio, Bella Palomo, Eva Campos-Domínguez, Pere Masip.	1
The Emotional Power of Partisan Media: A Computer Vision Analysis of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries	1
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society	1